December 15, 2011 at 11:05 am · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Evy Schwartz
Bring your own device (BYOD) to work? Not only are companies looking the other way but some organizations are actually giving the go ahead. Interestingly enough, federal agencies seem to be leading the way.
Veterans Affairs CIO Roger Baker, predicted that it will be within 2 years that federal agencies embrace a BYOD strategy. According to Baker, this means employees will be able to use their own devices to connect to the internal network, FierceGovernmentIT. So if the feds are doing it…surely companies worldwide will begin to allow the seepage of personal devices in the workplace.
But what could be motivating this sudden acceptance of personal devices? Thanks to a recent Read the rest of this entry »
December 5, 2011 at 7:40 am · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Bill Buie
I’m so delighted to be able to tell you that we’ve announced today that we’ve acquired the mobile file sharing company, TappIn. I’ve put together a few thoughts as to why “going mobile” is critical to GlobalSCAPE:
Much is being written about the “blurring” of personal technology and business technology. Maybe it’s really a societal statement that more and more of our work is done on smartphones, tablets and home PC’s. It’s then a natural extension to ask the IT organization in your company to use them as they see fit. We have already heard a number of stories that suggest that if IT isn’t ahead of this curve, then users will find a way to do it quite possibly outside the established boundaries and policies.
We agree that employees should be Read the rest of this entry »
